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    Local Structure of Human Hair Spatially Resolved by Sub-Micron X-Ray Beam

    November 2015 in “ Scientific reports ”
    Vesna Stanić, Jefferson Bettini, Fabiano Emmanuel Montoro … K. Evans‐Lutterodt
    Studysummary This study discovered a new region in the hair cortex where intermediate filaments are both aligned with the hair's axis and orientationally ordered, influenced by the cuticle boundary.
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